![]() ![]() (It is a cold day.) To placate her, he puts on the gloves, then pulls them off again once she turns to leave-only to hastily put them back on minutes later when a policeman yells at him for idling at a green light. Lastly, she scolds him for not wearing his gloves. Before she leaves, she tells him to buy overshoes (galoshes), overruling his meek protest with a reminder that he’s not young like he used to be. The fantasies themselves give the story an element of adventure: a hydroplane in a violent storm a man standing before a firing squad a dramatic, McDreamy. In the town of Waterbury, Mitty drops his wife off at a beauty salon. Discerning that Mitty has been lost in thought, his wife says, “It’s one of your days” and suggests he let his doctor look him over (Paragraph 3). ![]() Nevertheless, he quickly obeys her order. Another way to interpret this is as a sort of victory on Mittys part, as far as the story is concerned. The man is Walter Mitty, and for a moment he does not recognize his wife beside him: “She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a woman who had yelled at him in a crowd” (Paragraph 2). Its important to note that 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' both begins and ends inside Walters fantasies in this way, you might argue that the plot of the fantasies themselves and not the plot of the real world dominates the texts action. The scene ends abruptly, and the next passage reveals that it was all a daydream-the idle reverie of a man driving into town, his wife jarring him back to reality by urging him to drive more slowly. ![]()
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